Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog british cards I'm a sucker for Peonies

I'm a sucker for Peonies

I’m a fan of mid-century Lapid

just showing a little bit of a white crust—some of which I think might actually have been from the cream of the printed fabric (which adds to my sense it may have been hand-printed and was still wet enough to smear a bit

from Oaxaca

Another Maine find

Woman with Three Arms, Antique Watercolor Drawing with Die Cut Frog british cards I'm a sucker for PeoniesThis is one of several watercolor drawings which I find completely marvelous and clearly product of a most lively and inventive mind and hand, and which I'll be more than happy to keep for myself that I know were salvaged from a scrapbook sketchbook that lived from many years in the possession of a collector (of the hoarder disposition), whose huge, amazing collection was badly damaged in a flood. Such a heartbreaking thing, as the few drawings